Normally we blog about pretty much all news we have – both good news and bad news. This morning, however, we felt it prudent to take a slightly different route and emailed our clients directly before publishing anything anywhere else. As has been covered in the media today we had a security issue which led [...]
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RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group Presentation on Hosters vs Malware
Yesterday afternoon I presented to the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group at RIPE 63 in Vienna. Normally my presentations tend to run over, but yesterday, for possibly the first time ever, I “flew” through the presentation probably a bit too quickly! In any case here are the slides I used: Hosters vs. Malware: Best Practices View [...]
Talking Malware At RIPE 63
Image via Wikipedia RIPE 63 is being held this week in Vienna, Austria and I’ll be heading out to the meeting tomorrow (assuming Air France’s industrial actions don’t affect me!) One of the areas that I’m particularly interested in is network abuse and as such I’ll be presenting on Tuesday afternoon as part of the [...]
Stopping Badware
I’ve always been a strong believer that good behaviour and a clean internet would lead to a better experience for everyone. There is a lot of nasty stuff out there and we’ve always tried to do what we can to stop it from affecting our clients. Unfortunately “network abuse” is not “sexy” or exciting and [...]
Blacknight Warn Users to Mind Their Content Management Systems
Cases of compromised website Content Management Systems (CMS) are on the rise and Blacknight would like to remind users to update their CMS and plugins regularly. There is nothing more Internet-embarrassing than losing control of your website and recent Content Management System breaches are a reminder of the importance of operating your online business in [...]
TimThumb security issue with WordPress
We’re seeing a fair bit of chatter this morning about a security exploit in TimThumb so if you run a WordPress blog and are using a third party theme that resizes images chances are good that it has TimThumb included in it. (TimThumb doesn’t come with WordPress by default) For more info about the exploit [...]
Blacknight Solutions Warn of Domain Renewal Scams
Carlow, April 26th Domain space innovators Blacknight Solutions are striving to make the public aware of Domain Renewal Scams. When the time comes to renew a domain name, registrants receive renewal notices via email from their registrar. However, an overwhelming number of domain registrants are receiving renewal requests via postal mail and email from entities [...]
Is Your PC Safe?
As a registrar and hosting provider we normally don’t talk much about PCs. Why would we? Unfortunately there are times when it is necessary. The desktop computer has almost become as ubiquitous as the internal combustion engine in many respects. Nobody would try to run an office without a computer these days. But unfortunately we, [...]
Why We Run Fraud Checks
Fraud sucks. We sell primarily online, so we’re very wary of fraud. We’ve been targetted several times in the past by fraudsters from the four corners of the globe. While it’s easy to say that country X or country Y is a “hotbed” of fraud, the reality is that fraud is an international problem. People [...]
Phishing Attacks and Domains
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) have published their report covering the first half of 2008. The report is quite detailed, but some of the major points may be garnered from the first page introduction: Our major findings are: 1. Phishers continue to target specific Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and specific domain name registrars, and shift their [...]
Phishers Targetting Domain Owners
I mentioned that phishers were targetting eNom quite recently, but it seems that eNom was not alone. We’ve also been informed that some of the other registrars, including Network Solutions, are being targetted. If you get a suspicious email purporting to be from your domain registrar please let us know. Take a few simple precautions. [...]
Enom Phishing Warning
If you have registered a .com/net/org/info/biz or mobi domain name through us (or anyone else for that matter) you will normally get an email once a year asking you to verify your whois details. This is normal. If you need to update the details you can do so via your control panel. At no time [...]
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